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  • Airmen share concerns with Stenner during East Coast tour

    For the first time since he became the commander of Air Force Reserve Command, Lt. Gen. Charles Stenner made a visit to the Airmen of the 916th Air Refueling Wing.On Monday, Oct. 3, Stenner, the Air Force Reserve Command's highest ranking officer, spent a little more than four hours visiting the

  • Total force space team wins AF chief of staff award

    A total force team received an Air Force Chief of Staff Team Excellence Award Sept. 20 for work in launching the first Global Position System IIF satellite last year.Gen. Norton Schwartz presented the award to members of Schriever's 19th and 2nd Space Operations Squadrons, the Space and Missile

  • Second rotation of rescue wing Airmen depart for war

    Helicopter aviators, aircraft maintainers and support Airmen from the Air Force Reserve's 920th Rescue Wing departed here Sept. 28 en route to replacing rescue Airmen who have been in Afghanistan since  May. This is the second rotation for the yearlong deployment in support of Operation Enduring

  • Recruiters make goal

    Air Force Reserve Command recruiters reached their annual recruiting goal Sept. 22, when they recorded their 10,150th enlistment.The 400 men and women who recruit worldwide for the command had until the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30 to reach the annual goal."This achievement is a testament to

  • Team McChord makes first-ever mid-winter airdrop over South Pole

     For the first time in history, a C-17 Globemaster III assigned to McChord Field successfully completed a mid-winter nighttime airdrop at the South Pole. Airmen from the 62nd and 446th Airlift Wings teamed up to airdrop urgently needed medical supplies Sept. 1 at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole

  • Reserve, active duty join forces for Asia-Pacific deployment

    Nearly 200 personnel from the 419th and 388th Fighter Wings departed Sept. 23 for a 180-day joint deployment to the Asia-Pacific region.The pilots, maintainers and support personnel will provide F-16 air support in the region as part of a routine theater security package rotation.Hill's reservists

  • Reserve Command to realign several units

    Four flying wings, one flying group and seven smaller units in the Air Force Reserve Command will change their higher headquarters and chains of command by Oct. 1.These actions advance the command's efforts to provide operational capabilities and strategic depth across the full spectrum of military

  • Portraits in Courage features pararescue specialist

    Staff Sgt. Daniel Warren, a pararescueman from the 308th Rescue Squadron at Patrick AFB, Fla., is one of 18 Airmen featured in the latest version of Portraits in Courage.The reservist deployed to Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, in 2010 as a Guardian Angel team member of the 33rd Expeditionary Rescue

  • Reservists retrieve space debris from Mongolia

    There was no beeping noise as the pickup truck laden with rocket parts backed up to the C-17 Globemaster III at Chinggis Khaan International Airport in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, in late August. It was just a Mongolian driver and a U.S. Air Force loadmaster using hand signals to communicate. An Air

  • Balancing force top priority say senior Air Force leaders

    Finding the right balance of regular, Reserve and Guard component forces is the key to future Air Force capabilities and budget cuts, said senior leaders at the Air Force Association 2011 Air and Space Conference and Technology Exposition, on Sept. 19.More than 8,000 attended the conference at the